If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be.
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what’s left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Esc...
A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up mood lighting or hiding dead bodies. Or if someone was up there waiting to stab me again. Or if someone was up there waiting to hand me a crown and te...
Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age.
You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire; your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want i...
You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and ti...
Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a l...
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.
Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from under it.
No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!
Duke to Michel: I’m fairly certain that even if you’d struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors.
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.
Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.
Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.
